Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts

Contents

v Contents Illustrations vii Contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii Introduction: John Elder 1 1. Wings beating on stone: Richard Murphy’s ecology 5 Eamonn Wall 2. Dark outlines, grey stone: nature, home and the foreign in Lady Morgan’s The Wild Irish Girl and William Carleton’s The Black Prophet Jefferson Holdridge 20 3. ‘Sympathy between man and nature’: landscape and loss in Synge’s Riders to the Sea 36 Joy Kennedy-O’Neill 4. ‘Nothing can happen nowhere’: Elizabeth Bowen’s figures in landscape 50 Joanna Tapp Pierce 5. George Moore’s landscapes of return 66 Greg Winston 6. Ireland of the welcomes: colonialism, tourism and the Irish landscape 85 Eóin Flannery 7. Between country and city: Paula Meehan’s ecofeminist poetics 108 Kathryn Kirkpatrick 8. ‘Love poems, elegies: I am losing my place’: Michael Longley’s environmental elegies 127 Donna Potts 9. ‘Becoming animal’ in the novels of Edna O’Brien 151 Maureen O’Connor 10. Reading the landscape for clues: environment in Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 178 Miriam O’Kane Mara 11. Collaborative ecology in Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan 189 Karen O’Brien Conclusion: Mindful paths: an interview with Tim Robinson 205 Christine Cusick Notes and references 213 Bibliography 247 Contents vi ...